Selectors

Selectors are used to target which HTML element to style. Properties and values are used to set the style rules.

There are three kinds of selectors:

Selector

Description

Example

Tag

An HTML tag such as h1 or p.

h1

Class

A class attribute of one or more elements, such as <p class="class-name">Sample text</p>. Referenced in CSS with a “.” before it.

.class-name

ID

An id attribute of a unique element; should only be used once, such as <div id="header">Sample header</div>. Referenced in CSS with a “#” before it.

#header

Order of Importance

ID selectors are more important than class selectors, and class selectors are more important than HTML tag selectors.
More specific selectors get applied before less specific ones. HTML elements that are the innermost ones are the most specific.